Johnson v. Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1973
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And so long as such cases might frequently arise, we may well presume that it was not mere inadvertence on the part of the legislature, that the power to enter such decrees [of strict foreclosure] was not taken away. This power may possibly be abused by the courts. If this were a valid argument against the existence of the power, in order to satisfy it, it would be necessary to deprive the courts of all power to do justice as well as injustice, for there are very few powers which are held, either by courts or others, which may not be abused and perverted. But such an argument is more properly addressed to the legislature than to the courts themselves. Before the passage of the law quoted, the power here exercised did exist, and this statute did not pretend to take it away or abridge it, and the conclusion necessarily follows that it still exists.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.